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Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis

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After that conversation in the park, I decided to focus my research on Ranulfo’s dreams. If I was once again heeding the call of the coyote , Ranulfo was the best kind of coyote —one with a business plan.

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Wogan, P. (2017). Searching for The Key. In: Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52264-7_8

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